Description of Tool or App
Educreations a Smartboard in Tablet Form
Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within our app on their iPads. There is an easy to use image search tool that assists in filtering out inappropriate content. You can also add images stored on your device or take and talk about an image on the spot. The tool is intuitive and can be use by young students or adults. Educreations has a showcase of lesson at their homepage and a featured tab on the iPad app. Great lessons that other teachers have created with Educreations will help to get you started.

Benefits of Tool or App


  • Create lessons on the Ipad itself or on the web
  • Already created lesson showcase available
  • Quick filtered image search
  • Built in camera access
  • Simple to learn and use
  • Able to embed lessons into a blog or website
  • Able to used a variety of common image formats

Constraints of Tool or App


  • Lessons can’t be downloaded or exported
  • Need to have some type of recording (audio or drawing)
  • Drawing tools are basic, no shapes or bubbles
  • Lessons can't be saved to edit later

How To Use Tool or App


Download the Educreations App at:
__http://www.educreations.com/__
This video will give you step by step instructions: __http://www.mentormob.com/learn/i/how-to-use-educreations/educreations-tutorial__



Original Artifact of Tool or App (created by someone in your house)


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IDEAS for Tool or App

A list of fantastic ideas that match blooms are located at http://www.appsinclass.com/educreations.html

Student


  • Create written and audio responses to literature
  • Explain a math equation
  • Conduct interviews
  • Write a research report on an assigned or chosen project
  • Create an autobiography, memoir or record of a day in their life
  • Create a movie poster or other advertisement

Teacher


  • Oral testing
  • Flipped classroom within the class or sent home as assignments to be completed on a desk or lap top
  • Classroom instruction on any topic
  • Great for guided reading with small groups
  • Diagramming, drawing, presenting
  • Virtual field trips